The 501

HANABA MUNN WELCH

Tales of winter, cows, donkeys

this we all should be basking in Texas sunshine, reflecting on our days in the 2025 deep freeze and looking at a thin red line of mercury pushing 70. Some of us will have good stories. I hope I don’t. I probably will. Actually, I already do.

Not that most of us ever squint to read an old-fashioned thermometer. And the red line is probably not mercury. …